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Summary
Senior executive with broad experience in a variety of industries. Served as CEO, CFO, COO, CIO and manufacturing director over a period of 25+ years. Strong leader with excellent strategic, creative, commercial and people skills. “Change leader” with strong background in Financials, Management Information Systems, Manufacturing and Service Delivery.

Specialties
General management, business development, Interim and transition management, Business Process Management, Finance.
History including Payments / banking, Electronics, Electronic commerce and IT services, Chemicals, Dairy food, Textiles, Interior products, Fresh food.
My specialty lays in managing people and realizing transformations through change in attitude and co-operation.

History
Business Consultant and Part Time Lecturer
May 2009 – present
Various assignments; Investigating acquisition and delisting of mid-sized NASDAQ listed Technology Company in co-operation with Singaporean investors; BI on Spanish dairy-food market icm indian investor; Integral investigation of university’s exam committees. Advisory board @ Quantum Leap Development.
Part-time Lecturer at Zeeland University of Applied Sciences: Business Process Management, TQM, ITSM, HRM, Finance, Marketing, Business Economics. Development of the concentration “Delta Energy Markets & Trade”.

Chief Executive Officer at TT
May 2006 – April 2009 (2 years 11 months)
TT delivers Software (and content) As A Service in a number of market verticals. For this it has developed its own, fully platform independent delivery-architecture. The platform integrates key applications and data there-off in central middleware architecture (SOA), which also manages user-profiles and authorizations. Advanced virtualisation technologies are used to make anything relevant available "anywhere" to the end-user at the best affordable price.
Applications and content are made available where-ever the customer needs them, be it at work, at school, at home, in hospital, on vacation or anywhere else.. . Since the platform is largely based on open-source components, all of this can be done at very competitive prices.

Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director at Intellect Holdings
May 2000 - September 2005 (5 years 5 months)
Responsible for the activities of the (Australian) publicly listed holding company and its subsidiaries in Australia, Asia, Europe, USA and Latin America. Reporting to (and member of) a mixed Australian – European board. Built numerous partnerships with blue chip companies around the world in electronic payments (POS), (electronic) services , telecommunications, oil&gas and retail. Moved corporate headquarters from Perth to Brussels; took care of cross-pacific hand-over of knowledge, rebuilt the organization and managed the initial severe financial crisis.
I grew the company from a market cap of 8 million to 260 million dollar within a period of 3 years, raised 18 million $ in public / institutional environment (Australia) and enjoyed international media exposure.
Initiated the transition from box moving, hardware orientation to electronic commerce and added value through the foundation of TAFMO.com and the acquisition of Touch networks; an entity that currently serves 4 out of the 5 largest banks in Australia and a number of international retail chains with electronic services over POS infrastructure.. Moving up the value chain. Within TAFMO a delivery platform was built within the constraints of the banking – security restrictions. TAFMO is fully vendor independent.
Global exposure including : Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Africa, Benelux, Norway, Denmark, Germany, UK, France, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, USA, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Brazil

Chairman of the Board at Pay@Home
March 2002 – September 2005
Chairman of a mixed Swiss/French/Belgian/Dutch Board. Pay@Home is a Joint Venture of ASCOM – Monetel and Intellect Holdings aimed at payment infrastructure in the home – environment.

Chief Financial Officer a.i. at Intellect Holdings
December 1999 – May 2000
Post acquisition assignment. Analysis of financial situation of the (Public Australian) company. Managed a multi million $ cash deficit through negotiations with customers, suppliers and banks. Implemented a new ERP and accounting system. Became chairman of a distressed management team in march 2000.

Several interim and recovery assignments
March 1995 – November 1999:
• Boardroom consultant at “confidential”: Advice on a potential strategy-change and restructure of management team.
• Manufacturing director a.i. at “confidential” Post-restructure assignment. In Textiles industry. Restored motivation on the work-floor (120 FTE) and managed to bring reject - % in manufacturing down by some 75 % within a period of 5 months. Relocation and integration of manufacturing facilities from a sister-organization from London to the Netherlands. Initiated new restructure round to finalize the process.
• Recovery agent at “confidential”. Nutrition / fresh-food industry. Saved the company from technical bankruptcy. Took over the assets, changed orientation from bulk to niche, reorganized the workforce and resold assets.
• Director a.i. at “confidential” . Mechanical engineering / interior products. Changed strategy from project to product orientation. Developed new product portfolio and put out to contract on a licensing basis.

CFO / COO /CIO/ Manufacturing director at Swinkels
June 1990 - February 1995 (4 years 9 months)
Served in a variety of roles over a period of time. Initially CFO/COO/CIO, Responsible for Finance, ICT, Logistics, Warehouse and Sales services. Implemented full new MIS within a 6 months time-span. Headed up manufacturing plant ad interim after dismissal of manufacturing director. Restored motivation, achieved substantial productivity improvement.

Head of Business Economics at Campina
May 1989 - April 1990 (1 year)
Responsible for BE @ division headquarters for the consumer milk division. Direct responsibility for 4 departments, partly headquarters, party manufacturing locations. Evaluation of multi-million€ investment plans, composition of operational plans and budgets; monitor monthly results against those..

Business integrator & Controller Resin Business Unit at AKZO Nobel
April 1984 - March 1989 (5 years)
Integration of a number of manufacturing sites and sales offices around the globe into one single Strategic Business Unit for Synthetic Resins. Set up procedures, systems and reporting; develop management information systems, accomplished substantial savings in logistics and product allocation. Rationalized investment allocations internationally. Restructured manufacturing plant in Belgium. Set-up joint venture in Malaysia, evaluation of investments and acquisitions around the world.
Under my leadership a full custom made Quality information system (ISO 9001) was built and implemented (ORACLE/Uniface) covering the main functional area’s of the international unit (R&D – Purchasing – Manufacturing – Sales). Headed up project team of 25 professionals (Bsc/Masters/PHD level) and a number of external developers.

Education

Education
NIVRA / Nijenrode: Propedeuse. 1979 - 1981
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Business Economics, 1982 - 1988

Languages

Dutch Mother tongue
English fluent
German Close to fluent
French Good, needs some dusting - off.


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